The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-01-01
TosaI department.

SOrh birthday on Wednesday of this week.
Joseph L. Stephens of Rising Sun has
butchered his heavy hogs. One weighed
5l7 and the other 655 pounds.
The ladies of the Elkton Presbyterian
church propose to give supper in Odd
Fellows Hall some time in January.
Last Saturday was the first Christm As
spent in Elkton by a certain lawyer OF the
Cecil bar, who has practiced here for more
than a dozen years.
The next regular meeting of the Cal
vert w. c. T. U. will be held at Jonathan
Pick-ring's on New Years day at 2 p. NJ
A good attendance is desired.
The NJ Z. Sunday school of North
Est gave an entertainment III Wmgate
Post Hall on Christmas night which was a
success in every particular.
The Mutual Building Association of
this town has loaned S5,7UO in the past six
months, aud s. 800 more has ben applied
for aud the loans authorized.
AT the Christmas celebration of the
on Decem Der 2Sfh the Rev. |. l. Cation, OF
Chesapeake City, delivered an address.
The ladies' of Wesley Chapel will hold
supper for the benefit of that church at
Mr.. William Fosters residence. on Tuesday
January 81. Tickets for atulis 81 cents;
tor children % cents.
The heirs of the late George N Grant OF
Port Deposit have been notified by the pen
sion department that their fa;her's pension
claim had been settled. They will receive
$1,000 The claim had been pending since
1879
The new NJ E. parsonaa at Rising Sun
is now occupied by Rev. L. Jewell and
family. Mr. Jewell had no trouble abou,
moving in as the good peope of Rising Sun
lent helping hand and made the occasion
apleasant one.
john Bryson and Gus johnson. two
residents of Elk Neck, sotinto an alterca-
ton one night last week IL the house of the
former johnson was badly beaten up in
the fracus and required The attention of a
physician.
Mr.. Robert Richardson. an estimable
cilizeu OF this Second district. died last week
at his home, near st. Augustine, of con
sumption. His funeral took place on Sus-
day morning last The interment was at
Bethel cemetery.
AT the closing exercises of Crouch
Chapel Sunday School m Christmas morn
ing, Mr.. John NJ. Ter:.ll, the supsrinten-
dent, was presented with handsome silk
umbrella with silver ndle by the school.
The school will reopen IN April.
The news of The dath of Sen ator John
A Logan was receive, at the b. u y teie-
graph office in this town shortly after it
occurred on Sunday sfternoon. Mr.. Chas.
G Wells, tho operatG, posted bulletin
announcing the fact il front of his office.
A horse attached to a buggy belongi ug
to Mr.. VIM. Jetfries, Of Elk Neck, broke
loose from where II was hitchei i'll this
town on Christmas eve and started for
home. The buggy was caught by a branch
of a tree, overhauging the road, and torn
off
Foley, the tramppainter, being i'll took
refuge in the Jail day or two before Christ
mas and still remaiIs there, where he re-
ceives the attention of DIR. J. II. lamar,
the physician to tn, Jail He fell off a
chair and it was thought broke one of his
ribs.
Messrs. w. Irving Walker and Charles
Mearns, of North E.ss have had construct ted
an ice house at that place cap ,ble of hold
ing 600 tons. These gentlemen propose
to furnish the citizens of our neighboring
town with ice next summer. North East
has never had ice dealers before.
The snow drifts were very high in the
npper part of the cnIaty and in Pennsyl-
vania Ephraim MeNutt, mail carrier from
Hickory Hill via Brick Meeting House to
Nottingham. had 10 tear down n large mum
Der of fences in order to reach his dostina-
tion. He only got az far as Brick Meeting
House.
-Myra, the fie year old daughter of
William and Eluira Jones, who reside Oh
the corner of Stockton and North streets,
Elkton, died Tuesday afternoon of uiph-
liberia after u short Illness. Tue funeral
was held the next afternoon. A child Of
George Biddle Who is employed at SIN
gerly's pulp works died the latter part Of
last week of tbs same disease.
Christmas was a very quiet day in Elk
ton. The public Offices, bank and store.
were closed. At the Episcopal church
number watched the day in, and the morn
ing services at the same church were wei
attended. An early morning prayer meet
o'clock Services we're also held in tn,
morning at the Catholic church. A pigeon
shooting match was held in the afternoon
but it did not amount to much.
The Wilmington Republican Of Monday
had the following: Last FRIDAY morning
farmer named Robert Cullen, of Apple
ton, Cecil county. Md, came to this cit.
with "A load of produce, and after he hat
disposed of it started for his home. As b
was driving out Front street near the stree
car stables, he undertook to turn out of tn,
way of car, aud came in collision will
anotner Vthlcit gong Iii the opposite ulreG
ton. Cullen's wagon y -SElpset, throwing
him oGt, and his horse ran away He Wa
not injured, but lost about all of the none,
he had received for his produce
Since several prisoners succeeded il
scaling the jail wall two weeks ago. tn
sheriff and his deputy have been particu
larly watchful for other attempts The,
only allow the ma jority of the prisoners t.
spend few mo .nents outside of their Gel is
and that while their cells are being place,
in order, and always under guard. Tn
deputy sheriff on Monday noticed "A box il
the cell of Georg- Cooper, colored, who ha,
been using il Is "A seat. 1t occurred to hin
to look behind it, He found a hole in TIL
itil wall nearly ~ large round fl N
barrel 1t had not been made all the wa
through Cooper was made 20 chang
cells T. he had succeedsi in getting out O
his cell he would have h III the Jail wall L
get over before attaining liberty. Cope
is charged with having burglsri.ed Lack
lands drug store at Perryville.